NASA awards contract for near-Earth mission services

NASA has awarded the Space Exploration Network Services and Evolution (SENSE) contract to US-based company Peraton to perform telemetry, tracking and command services for near-Earth missions.

NASA awards contract for near-Earth mission services

Stephen Kuper

Last Updated: 13 April 2020
Published: 21 June 2019

The SENSE contract begins on 3 July with a 90-day phase-in period, followed by a five-year ordering period that runs through 30 September 2024. The maximum value of this cost-plus-award-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is US$1.8 billion.

System architecture, system engineering and development services will evolve NASA’s networks to efficiently and effectively provide innovative space communications and navigation solutions to enable new science and exploration.

Sustaining, operations and maintenance services will be performed for ground systems at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland; Kennedy Space Centre in Florida; White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico; and Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. Work also will be performed at various non-NASA locations.